The Perfect Storm Summary

In September 1991, five fishermen and their captain boarded the Andrea Gail, a longliner boat used for sword fishing. Their plan was to head to the Grand Banks off the shores of New England from their fishing town of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Each fisherman expected to earn up to five thousand dollars, depending upon how many fish they caught.

Bobby Shatford and Albert Pierre are the only two fishermen with sweethearts. They spend the days...

Sebastian Junger Biographies (1)

Sebastian Junger's 1997 book, The Perfect Storm, catapulted the first-time author to the sort of celebrity for which most writers hunger their entire lives. His book about a sea tragedy rode the waves...
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The Perfect Storm
All collapsed, and the great shroud
Of the sea rolled on as it had
Five thousand years ago.
-Herman Melville, Moby Dick
The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger, is a novel about ...
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